Damn, Hyundai is putting out some tempting cars. I might have to jump ship and trade my 626 for this car. I'll keep the 8 cause there's nothing else like it on the market. It's a perfect sportscar for me. I hope hyundai build quality is as good as Mazda now.

 

lol, well...let me just say that what Kia is today is WORLDS APART from what they were when they started. So...no offense KIA, you aint so bad.

The Sorento is nice, the newer small sadan (Sephia or something) is pretty nice, and the new minivan looks much better...beyond that I just don't know.

 

My wife owns an 04 Sorento. I was very apprehensive about getting one but from everything I had read on it, every mag was saying it was a very good mid size suv. We looked at the saturn, honda, toyota (small), and the escape, then took a sorento for a drive. We bought it that night. Not only did it come with more options for less money, but the ten year warrenty, no deduct was a clincher.

3 years later, the car has not been in the shop once, other then regular maint. Everything on it works like new, no broken ***** or snapped buttons, no rattles, creaks or nothing. This is an excellent car for anyone looking into a mid size suv.

and the best news...I still got 7 years of warrenty left when a chevy, ford, or saturn would have been over thiers by now...

 

Anyone know that this azera has 8 standard airbags? Although it's not really suprising since their car that competes with mazda3, civic, and corolla have like 4 or 6 standard airbags. But yea, hyundai are improving more and more. Plus interior of azera looks more japanese-like rather than american or korean. So it's quite good I think.

 

I made my old man take one out, I drove it as well. I was floored at how smooth, powerful, quite and just how well built it felt. All buttons and accessories felt firm and operated smoothly, it was a VERY NICE car. Also I stood on it and it's got impressive power to boot. This particular car was a little over 29k, to us that put it to close to some very stiff competition:ie.3 series, IS lexus etc,etc. Although the Hyundai is loaded and the other cars are not, I'm sure that it's blend of quality and perfromance will win over many american buyers.

 

In a recent interview in Automotive News, when the CEO of Toyota Motors was asked who he feared most in the american marketplace he replied Hyundai. I think it would be a fair assumption that the CEO of Toyota knows whats up, think about how far they have come in 10 years.....People used to think of Honda and Yota the same way. If someones to vein to drive one, there loss I suppose.

 

An American car company executive said the same thing on camera. It's a tactic that is both truth and untruth. He's directing attention away from Honda, which is their primary concern. Similarly, the American was redirecting attention away from Toyota, Honda, and Nissan.

Every carmaker knows what's going on with Hyundai but it's ok to mention them now because Hyundai still has a few years to go to get to the top.

 

I actually agree with you on this point.

 

Of course you do.

 

it looks like a mercedes to my eyes. at least at first glance.